Free printable recipe cards
Blank cards for the recipes still in someone’s head. Ruled for a pen, sized for the box on the counter, and set in the same three designs as the printed books — so a card written today can sit beside the book later.
Free · no email wall · print at home on card stock
The three designs
Warm ivory, a forest-green rule top and bottom, numbered step circles.
Everyday food — salads, bowls, the weeknight rotation.
White, espresso ink, a gold running head that reads “The kitchen of”.
The recipes that came from someone.
Cream, an amber rule down the left edge, Bebas Neue numerals.
Baking, and anything with twelve steps.
Every card has a back
The second sheet is the backs: method steps seven to twelve, a line for the recipe’s name so a loose card finds its front again, and three lines of notes for the thing you changed the second time.
Backs are mirrored for long-edge duplex, so a printer that turns the sheet over lines them up by itself. Single-sided printers: print page two on its own and glue back to back.
How to print
Letter paper, portrait, actual size — not “fit to page”, which shrinks the cards. The crop marks sit just outside each corner.
200–250 gsm (65–90 lb cover) goes through most home printers and survives a kitchen. Plain paper works too — glue it to an index card.
A ruler and a craft knife give a cleaner edge than scissors. The card edge itself is unprinted, so a slightly imperfect cut shows no frame.
What to write on them
Start with the dish someone makes from memory and has never written down — the interview kit has the fifty questions that get it out of them. When the box is full, Mise reads each card, handwriting included, into a clean recipe and prints the lot as a case-bound hardcover.
Questions
4 × 6 inches — the standard US recipe-box size — two to a Letter sheet, with crop marks at the corners of each card. Printed at 100% on A4 they come out the same size with slightly different margins.
No. These are cards to write on by hand: ruled at a comfortable pitch for a pen, with numbered lines for the method. If you want typed recipes laid out properly, that is what Mise does — it reads a handwritten card into a clean, editable recipe and prints the collection as a hardcover.
Yes, please. Link to this page rather than re-hosting the files, so your readers always get the current version. The cards are free for personal use and may not be resold.
Yes. Each card uses the same paper colour, faces and accent as the printed Verdant, Maison and Column books — so a card written today sits beside the book later without arguing with it.
Mise is opening soon. Put your name down, and start with the card that has been in the drawer the longest.